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Negro pastors fulminated from hundreds of U. S. pulpits last week in a vein keynoted by Rev. John King, eminent Kentucky brimstone gospeler: "Ethiopia is the land of our heritage! She is the oldest Christian nation in this world and the Lord God Jehovah can't let her down...
...Emperor Power of Trinity in Addis Ababa the Negro Pittsburgh Courier cabled MANY AMERICAN NEGROES DESIRE TO VOLUNTEER SERVICE FOR YOUR ARMY WHAT IS ETHIOPIA'S ATTITUDE. Replied His Majesty : FOLLOWING YOUR TELEGRAM LET US KNOW YOUR CONDITIONS AND WE WILL ACCEPT YOU WITH PLEASURE. This stumped the Courier but in scores of darktowns persuasive Negroes set themselves up as recruiting agents, offered tempting terms in the name of Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators...
...Washington sentiments more refined but no less friendly to Ethiopia were conveyed by that snowy-crested Tennesseean, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to pained and noncommittal Italian Ambassador Augusto Russo. Mr. Hull, putting his very soul into the word, said that the Adminis-tration was "concerned." That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be "surprised" and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare direct quotation interviews to Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor Jr. of the St. Louis Star-Times...
...withdraw all silver from circulation in Italy [TIME, June 24], measures such as usually are necessary only toward the end of a war. If the Dictator has to do such things now, what will he have to do later?" Said another: "Suppose even that Italy conquers all Ethiopia, how can she turn this conquest into cash quickly enough to meet her bills...
...Coptic Christian Emperor Power of Trinity's subjects are pagans, but that wily monarch claims to possess the very Ark of the Covenant described in the Old Testament and the very Tablets of the Law, straight from Jehovah's own hand and preserved for ages in Ethiopia. Last week these relics which, if authentic, should galvanize the Christian world to action in their defense, were ordered by His Majesty "removed to the mountains...